Worldwide economic losses from river flooding could increase 20-fold by the end of the 21st century if no further actions on flood risk reduction are taken. Over 70% of this increase can be attributed to economic growth in flood prone areas This follows from a recent study by a Dutch consortium that includes our research…

Marc Bierkens contributed the paper entitled “Global hydrology 2015: state, trends and directions” to the 50th anniversary of Water Resources Research special collection issue. The papers in  this issue are freely downloadable!

A nice article in the Desert Sun and USA Today that highlights our past work on global groundwater dep0letion and sea-level rise.

These are our contributions at AGU 2015 H13R-01 Development of human impact modeling in global hydrology Monday, 14 December 2015  13:40 – 13:55 Moscone West – 3011 Marc Bierkens and Yoshihide Wada H13R-06 eWaterCycle: Recent progress in a global operational hydrological forecasting model Monday, 14 December 2015  14:55 – 15:10 Moscone West – 3011 Nick Van…

Check out our new publication showing that the precipitation in the high mountains of Asia is severely underestimated: link to paper here!

Inge de Graaf , PhD student in our group has published a paper about a global 6-arcminute one-layer groundwater model. The model is made in MODFLOW and is forced with recharge and surface water levels from our global hydrological model. In this publication a steady state global groundwater depth map has been made, but in subsequent work Inge…

The World Resources Institute has launced the Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer v1.0. It the first-ever public analysis of current and future river-flood risks worldwide. The Analyzer estimates current and 2030 values for potential exposed GDP, affected population and urban damage from river floods for every state, country, and major river basin in the world. The tool is based…

Richard Taylor wrote a News and Views in Nature about our paper on global sustainable water use that appeared in Environmental Research Letters Last month. See also one of our previous posts.

The Roman World used trade of grain (actual virtual water trade) as a means to be more resilient against climate change. At the same time, as population grew as a result of a steady supply of food, it became more dependent on trade and thus more sensitive to political or climatological disturbances of the trade…

You can follow our work during AGU 2014. Following is a  list of sessions, orals and posters that we are involved in. Maybe see you there! Monday December 15 2014 14:10-14:25 Moscone West 2010: H13L-03 Global Depletion of Groundwater Resources: Past and Future Analyses (Marc Bierkens et al., Invited) Tuesday December 16 2014 8:00 – 12:20 Moscone West…